The most successful companies recognize that risk is part of doing business and that it can be managed with positive results. Deloitte & Touche LLP can help you tackle not only the readily apparent risks facing your company — security and privacy, regulatory compliance, technology, fraud and more — but also can help you address risks that threaten your business strategy and achievement of your objectives.
Latest resources
New The Risk Intelligent Approach to Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
The 11th title in our Risk Intelligence series offers insight to why a CR&S program is critical to a company’s survival — beyond the “feel good” factor of charity — and outlines a Risk Intelligent CR&S approach.
New The Risk Intelligent IT Internal Auditor
The 10th title in our Risk Intelligence white paper series outlines a risk intelligent approach that can help elevate IT Internal Audit.
White papers
Insights for Chief Audit Executives in Consumer Business
Consumer business companies face daunting challenges in today’s turbulent markets. Read this Deloitte white paper to learn about the current status of ERM within consumer business companies and insights for incorporating risk information into core decision-making processes.
Urgent Convergence: Fostering Risk Intelligence in the TMT Industries
The ninth title in our Risk Intelligence series, this paper offers insight and intelligence on TMT companies' exposure to risks and how they can be managed.
Risk Intelligent Approach to Outsourcing and Offshoring
Companies today face serious outsourcing and offshoring (O/O) risks. The eighth title in the Risk Intelligence series provides a Risk Intelligent approach to address the risk and maximize the value of an O/O strategy.
The Risk Intelligent Energy Company: Weathering the Storm of Climate Change
The seventh title in our Risk Intelligence series provides energy executives with insight into identifying their key climate change risks, and offers guidance on how to benefit from the implications of climate change.
The Risk Intelligent CIO: Becoming a Front-Line IT Leader in a Risky World
The responsibilities facing today’s chief information officer (CIO) are more demanding than ever, and CIOs are increasingly aware that information technology (IT)-related problems can come at staggering costs to their organization’s bottom line and reputation. The latest title in our series on Risk Intelligence, this paper provides IT executives with practical guidance on leveraging technology to intelligently manage the risks across the enterprise.
The Risk Intelligent Chief Audit Executive
In today’s competitive environment, the chief audit executive has a unique opportunity to help make significant improvements in enterprise-wide risk management effectiveness and efficiency. The fifth paper in our Risk Intelligence series explains how.
The Risk Intelligent Life Sciences Company
The life sciences industry faces significant risks inherent in its business, and executives and directors must address the continual demands of a multitude of constituents. Paradoxically, dealing with multiple demands heightens risk, and as these risks converge, management of them becomes simultaneously more difficult and more essential.
The Risk Intelligent Enterprise: ERM for the Energy Industry
Hurricane Katrina, the August 2003 blackout and the Enron scandal have made it clear that the energy industry is indeed vulnerable to a wide array of risks. Traditional risk management may have served well in the past, but the scope, complexity and interdependencies of emerging risks are compelling many companies to adopt comprehensive and integrated approaches, or enterprise risk management (ERM).
Risk Intelligence in the Age of Global Uncertainty
Dire threats dominate the news: terrorism and war, natural and manmade disasters, avian flu and other potential pandemics, and much more. How can companies separate the real dangers from the imagined? To provide an antidote to the hype and resultant confusion, Deloitte & Touche LLP has released this new white paper, “Risk Intelligence in the Age of Global Uncertainty.”
The Risk Intelligent Enterprise — ERM Done Right
What characterizes a Risk Intelligent Enterprise? To answer that question, Deloitte & Touche LLP has released “The Risk Intelligent Enterprise — ERM Done Right.” In it, you’ll find an insightful definition of Risk Intelligence, a discussion of key concepts, real world examples of proper (and improper) approaches and suggested steps for bringing Risk Intelligence to your organization.
Research
Forrester Wave™: Risk Consulting Services, Q2 2007
In a groundbreaking comparative evaluation of the leading 10 global risk services firms, Forrester Research, the respected independent research firm, names Deloitte as a leader with the "most complete end-to-end risk offering among a field of strong leaders."
Forrester Research’s Risk Services Landscape Report
Forrester Research, the respected independent research firm, names Deloitte as the only firm with "extensive capabilities" across the full breadth of "risk specialties," according to this report on the risk services landscape.
Disarming the Value Killers
This study analyzes why risk is such a concern, identifies potential value killers and explains how to deal with expected — and unexpected — risks.
Podcasts
The Transformational Power of Outsourcing
Outsourcing can generate change to improve performance and give companies a competitive edge. Listen to our Deloitte Insights podcast and learn more.
Who Dares, Wins: What It Takes to Be a Risk Intelligent Chief Audit Executive
Chief audit executives must deal with a full spectrum of risks: fraud, regulatory compliance, and internal control, among other issues. They also must recognize that risk has two faces — the traditional domain of risk to existing assets, and the less familiar aspect of risk taking for reward. Listen to this informative discussion on the rewards of risk and the evolving role of the chief audit executive in the Risk Intelligent Enterprise™.
The Risk Intelligent Enterprise: The Rewards of Risk
ERM is a hot topic. Despite this widespread awareness, a standard definition of ERM remains elusive, and the range of practices falling loosely under the heading of ERM is vast and growing. Listen to this Deloitte Insights podcast for an informative discussion. (58 mins)
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Other titles
Internal Auditing in a World of Risk
Chief audit executives and internal auditors have an opportunity to add tremendous value to their organizations by taking a proactive approach to risk. Learn how in this article from Internal Auditing magazine.
The Two Faces of Risk
Enlightened executives don’t just worry about bad things that could happen, such as the theft of sensitive customer data. They also sweat the good things that might occur, such as the next hit product. How well does your organization anticipate and manage the various incarnations of risk?
The Risk Intelligent Enterprise
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP Chief Executive Officer James H. Quigley sat down with FORTUNE magazine to discuss how companies can gain competitive advantage by becoming risk intelligent.
Good Risk, Bad Risk: Are You Taking Intelligent Risks to Drive Value?
Risk is a fundamental part of business. But that doesn’t mean all risks are the same. Companies that focus on the wrong risks are wasting their time and money — and, ultimately, short-changing their shareholders.
Balancing Risks and Rewards
Companies that implement risk strategies may be more successful. Understand integrated risk systems, when risk can be rewarded and how to manage vulnerabilities.
When Corporate Risk Becomes Personal
Greater transparency of key risks and the ERM process is essential at the board level. Read how boards can seek more Risk Intelligence.
